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• The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

  Shahin Najafi

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

  Wayne White

  Art, Thinking, Play

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Ifs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Internet, Destroying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Museums, Cities

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Way, Belief

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

  Jamie Catto

  Art, Boss, Democratic

  Jamie Catto (2016). “Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel”, p.144, Canongate Books

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• Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Intellectual, Growth

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• Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.

  MaryAnn F. Kohl

  Art, Children, Ideas

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• Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

  Shelly Glover

  Art, Government, Support

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• Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

  Sxip Shirey

  Song, Art, Writing

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• Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

  Felix Salmon

  Art, Use, Pay

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• Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

  Richard Serra

  Art, People, Democratic

  "Man of steel" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2008.

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• Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Hot, World

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• Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Collectives

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.151, Psychology Press

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• Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Art, Communication, Men

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• Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Mean, Past

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• Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

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• Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

  George Rickey

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

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• The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Average, Ends

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• Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Art, Relation, Relate

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